preparing your essay Instructions

1. Please select at least one journal article from this list.
2. Websites provide examples of related material.

Essay Topics

1. Auditory Sensory Perception: Music & Language Development

1a. journal articles

  • Trehub: Music versus language perception in early infancy
  • Janata: Tonotopy of Music in adult humans

  • Levitin: Music abilities in Williams Syndrome
  • Benasich, Infant discrimination of rapid auditory cues predicts later language impairment
  • Fitch Lab, An animal model of developmental language disabilities

  • Artificial cochlea restores hearing in deaf children
  • Word comprehension in children with cochlear implants

    • 1b. websites

  • Tutorial on Sound perception
  • April Benasich, Language Development lab
  • Laurel Trainor, Infant Auditory Lab

  • Tillman Auditory Perception lab (harmonic priming)

  • Petr Janata's webpage
  • Music perception Levitin's webpage
  • Levitin's Theory of Absolute Pitch Perception
  • Ursula Bellugi Auditory Lab (study of Williams disease)
  • Music Perception Cross-cultural

  • Kodaly Method:
    use multiple-sensory modalities to teaching music
  • Kodaly Method at University of Connecticut
  • Kodaly Educational Site

    • 2. Visual Sensory Perception Development


    2a. journal articles

  • Needham: Object recognition and segregation in 4.5 month old infants.
    Kovacs: Development of contour perception
  • Kovacs: Contour pop-out perception after developing with strabismas
  • Dobkins: Infants more sensitive to color motion than adults!
  • Teller: Infant color vision (and motion)
    • 2b. websites
  • Needham Duke Child Labs
  • UofC Center For Infant Studies
  • Duke Infant Perception Lab
  • Duke Infant Perception Lab (Nelsen)
  • Tutorial: Infant Vision
  • Toddler Vision Tests
  • Down's Syndrome Vision Tests
  • Video: Audio: Infant Vision Testing
  • Saccade Problems: Reading
    • 2c. websites (eye movement disorders)
  • Nystagmus
  • Healthnet Facts and Links on Nystagmus
  • Social Impact Nystagmus
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    Essay Topics Cont....

    3. Visual: Face & Object recognition & Autism & emotional valiency on faces
    3b. journal articles

  • Gauthier: Becoming a Greeble Expert
  • Schultz: Fusiform face area in social recognition implications for autism
  • Schultz: Fusiform Face area activity in Autism and Asperger Syndrome
  • Big list of publications on fusiform face area
  • Kanwisher: center-periphery organization of object recognition
  • Levy: center-periphery organization of object recognition
  • Paper on cortical activity patterns with Happy Faces.
  • Paper on brain creating emotional memories.

    • 3b. websites
  • Schultz: movies to test social saliency
    Facial expression affects emotional expression and behavior
    Another short essay on nonverbal expression of emotion
    Nonverbal communication autism
    • 4. Mirror Neurons & Autism
  • Miller: Short Review on Mirror Neurons (doesn't count as required article)
  • Wickelgren: Short Review on Mirror Neurons (doesn't count as required article)
  • Nakamura: STS and social/intentional hand movements
  • Nakamura summary diagram/figure of pathways for social tagging
  • Boddaert Review STS Structural MRI
  • Mosconi: STS and social/intentional eye movements
  • Pelphrey: STS and eye gaze in autism
  • Wickelgren: Short Review on Mirror Neurons (doesn't count as required article)
  • Rizzolatti: Full Review on Mirror Neurons
  • Thompson: Superior Temporal Sulcus Neurons
  • Schultz: movies to test social saliency
  • Schultz: movies to test social saliency
    3b. journal articles

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